Alright, I'll bite. What FPS('s) before did you quickly regenerate all your health if you can go a few seconds without getting shot? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious; I'm a pretty seasoned FPS vet, and as far as I know, Halo was the first game to use this kind of system, which has since become the standard for first-person shooters.
There were a few other big things that set Halo apart from the pack. Split-screen co-op is one. While it's not exactly original, I can't think of any good FPS's before Halo that had decent splitscreen co-op. (Perfect Dark tried, but the framerate was pretty terrible.)
Seamless vehicle integration was another. While certainly not the first game to incorporate vehicles, few games at the time had vehicles that were as much fun to drive as Halo's warthog, banshee and scorpion tank, and that you could jump into and out of at any time.
Two words: Horse Armor.
That said, it is true that "premium" add-ons are much rarer for the PC.
The ease of pirating these add-ons for the PC is probably part of the reason for this. Also, PC gamers have long expected free add-ons and user-created content with there games, whereas this has been all but unheard of for console games until recently.
Not all add-ons are a bad deal, though. As long as these ones aren't too expensive, they look like a pretty good deal. Mirror's Edge may have had a short story mode, but with ranked speed runs and 30-something replayable Time Trial levels, there's really a lot of content for more dedicated players. And these levels look pretty amazing, and really, really open-ended.
...for what it's worth, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already been made into a good game.Some would even call it a great game.
(Although to be fair, it was a text adventure; a genre that's all but dead, and happens to be a lot more book-like than any other type of game.)//also thinks Metal Gear could be turned into a totally awesome movie, but lacks supporting evidence
I think it might have as much to do with people downloading demos as it does with people playing games online. When I got my 360 this September, the first thing I did (after playing some Halo 3 and Dead Rising, of course) was fill the better part of my 20-gig hard-drive with ten or so demos. Once I downloaded most of the demos I was interested in, I mostly stopped, and now I usually download one every week or two.
I doubt I'm the only one who did this, especially since the 360 lets demos download in the background while you play. A hundred thousand or so people downloading demos as high as their high-speed internet will let them, plus another hundred thousand playing online, and hundreds of thousands more creating accounts and downloading the October update--it's not hard to imagine that kind of activity could take down Xbox Live.
Here's a link to Jet Set Radio's soundtrack, kind of. It's the soundtrack for the JSRF, not the original, but it's definitely the same kind of stuff, and many of the songs are just barely altered remixes of songs from the original. At any rate, it's good stuff.
JSRF is easily one of my favorite game soundtracks, along with Chrono Trigger, the Final Fantasy games, the Castlevania games, the Halo games, and the classic Sonic games.
Actually, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo was the first, and only, Puzzle Fighter game. The title was just Capcom's way of poking fun of themselves for the ridiculous number of different versions of Street Fighter 2 they put out.
It's not quite the same, but this, from The Devil's Dictionary, has a certain similarity:
"PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
Also, from Mark Twain's What is Man:
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel...And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth."
Also, here are a few quotes that disagree:
"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." --Thomas Mann
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." --Spinoza
It's not quite the same, but this, from Mark Twain's What is Man, has a certain similairity:
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel...And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth."
They may not be able to crack down on individuals sharing files with their friends, or for that matter public P2P services like BitTorrent, but Nintendo can crack down on Rom sites. Rom sites like romnation and rom-world have to self-censor to avoid getting in trouble with the Entertainment Software Association.
Many of the most popular games are protected by the ESA, and sites that refuse to take down protected ROMS risk getting a cease-and-desist. Games like the Final Fantasy series, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, the Mario series, the Metroid Series, and just about any of the more popular Nintendo series are nowhere to be found on mainstream ROM sites; a search for them will show no results on some sites, or on others, tell you that they're ESA protected. (For what it's worth, Sega's most popular franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, isn't ESA protected.) It's already nearly impossible to find a game like, say, Super Mario World on the web without using peer-to-peer services, and with Nintendo launching it's Virtual Console with the Wii, the ESA anti-piracy rules could soon grow to include more games for the NES, SNES and N64.
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Alright, I'll bite. What FPS('s) before did you quickly regenerate all your health if you can go a few seconds without getting shot? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious; I'm a pretty seasoned FPS vet, and as far as I know, Halo was the first game to use this kind of system, which has since become the standard for first-person shooters. There were a few other big things that set Halo apart from the pack. Split-screen co-op is one. While it's not exactly original, I can't think of any good FPS's before Halo that had decent splitscreen co-op. (Perfect Dark tried, but the framerate was pretty terrible.) Seamless vehicle integration was another. While certainly not the first game to incorporate vehicles, few games at the time had vehicles that were as much fun to drive as Halo's warthog, banshee and scorpion tank, and that you could jump into and out of at any time.
Two words: Horse Armor. That said, it is true that "premium" add-ons are much rarer for the PC.
The ease of pirating these add-ons for the PC is probably part of the reason for this. Also, PC gamers have long expected free add-ons and user-created content with there games, whereas this has been all but unheard of for console games until recently.
Not all add-ons are a bad deal, though. As long as these ones aren't too expensive, they look like a pretty good deal. Mirror's Edge may have had a short story mode, but with ranked speed runs and 30-something replayable Time Trial levels, there's really a lot of content for more dedicated players. And these levels look pretty amazing, and really, really open-ended.
...for what it's worth, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already been made into a good game. Some would even call it a great game.
//also thinks Metal Gear could be turned into a totally awesome movie, but lacks supporting evidence
(Although to be fair, it was a text adventure; a genre that's all but dead, and happens to be a lot more book-like than any other type of game.)
I think it might have as much to do with people downloading demos as it does with people playing games online. When I got my 360 this September, the first thing I did (after playing some Halo 3 and Dead Rising, of course) was fill the better part of my 20-gig hard-drive with ten or so demos. Once I downloaded most of the demos I was interested in, I mostly stopped, and now I usually download one every week or two. I doubt I'm the only one who did this, especially since the 360 lets demos download in the background while you play. A hundred thousand or so people downloading demos as high as their high-speed internet will let them, plus another hundred thousand playing online, and hundreds of thousands more creating accounts and downloading the October update--it's not hard to imagine that kind of activity could take down Xbox Live.
Ask, and you shall receive.
Here's a link to Jet Set Radio's soundtrack, kind of. It's the soundtrack for the JSRF, not the original, but it's definitely the same kind of stuff, and many of the songs are just barely altered remixes of songs from the original. At any rate, it's good stuff.
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/VA-Jet-Set-Radio-Future-The-Complete-Soundtrack-2002/4324688dc600c60beebf776387a5f075efed07bb79bd
JSRF is easily one of my favorite game soundtracks, along with Chrono Trigger, the Final Fantasy games, the Castlevania games, the Halo games, and the classic Sonic games.
Actually, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo was the first, and only, Puzzle Fighter game. The title was just Capcom's way of poking fun of themselves for the ridiculous number of different versions of Street Fighter 2 they put out.
It's not quite the same, but this, from The Devil's Dictionary, has a certain similarity:
..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth."
"PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
Also, from Mark Twain's What is Man:
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.
Also, here are a few quotes that disagree:
"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." --Thomas Mann
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." --Spinoza
It's not quite the same, but this, from Mark Twain's What is Man, has a certain similairity: "Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth."
They may not be able to crack down on individuals sharing files with their friends, or for that matter public P2P services like BitTorrent, but Nintendo can crack down on Rom sites. Rom sites like romnation and rom-world have to self-censor to avoid getting in trouble with the Entertainment Software Association.
Many of the most popular games are protected by the ESA, and sites that refuse to take down protected ROMS risk getting a cease-and-desist. Games like the Final Fantasy series, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, the Mario series, the Metroid Series, and just about any of the more popular Nintendo series are nowhere to be found on mainstream ROM sites; a search for them will show no results on some sites, or on others, tell you that they're ESA protected. (For what it's worth, Sega's most popular franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, isn't ESA protected.) It's already nearly impossible to find a game like, say, Super Mario World on the web without using peer-to-peer services, and with Nintendo launching it's Virtual Console with the Wii, the ESA anti-piracy rules could soon grow to include more games for the NES, SNES and N64.
http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=king%20kong&
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: (action/adventure, Ubisoft)s &audio=&video=&apps=&games=on&porn=&other=&what=se arch&page=0&orderby=se
http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=two%20throne
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (stealth action, Ubisoft)r y&audio=&video=&apps=&games=on&porn=&other=&what=s earch&page=0&orderby=se
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Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (first person shooter, Gearbox)a rms+earned+in+blood>
http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=brothers+in+
X3 (space sim, Enlight Software)a mes=on
http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=x3+reunion&g
enjoy.